J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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You can't live your life through your children.
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The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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I am a just man.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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Korean nationalism is its emphasis on the vulnerability of the race.
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I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel.
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Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.
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Journalism is not easy. It's the first rough draft. I don't think you need to wait around until you have the definitive thing. You record what's there; don't delude yourself that this is the ultimate historical view.
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Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
